SKA-PST-DSP-TOOLS

This project provides Docker images for offline analysis of data recorded by the SKA Pulsar Timing (PST) backend. Two Docker images are built for use as an interactive shell: ska-pst-psrchive and ska-pst-dspsr.

ska-pst-psrchive

The ska-pst-psrchive base image provides the PSRCHIVE suite of tools for the analysis of pulsar astronomical data in the form of phase-resolved averages known as folded pulse profiles. The installed tools include the development library, python bindings, and user-end executables. In addition to all of the build tools required to compile the code base, a number of third-party packages are also installed, including PGPLOT, FFTW3, CFITSIO, Armadillo, splinter, and yaml-cpp. Although not strictly dependencies, vim and gnuplot are also installed.

Pulsar-specific software packages (psrchive, tempo2, and psrcat) are installed in $HOME/Pulsar.

ska-pst-dspsr

This ska-pst-dspsr image builds on top of ska-pst-psrchive and provides the DSPSR suite of tools for the analysis of pulsar astronomical time series data. The installed tools include the development library, python bindings, and user-end executables. In addition to DSPSR, PSRDADA is also installed to help with managing PST voltage recorder data files. The dspsr library is configured with CUDA support for four generations of Nvidia GPUs.

Pulsar-specific software packages (dspsr and psrdada) are installed in $HOME/Pulsar.